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The Florists^ Review 



April 15, la^jo 



Seed Trade News 



AKBBIOAM SKKD TSADB ASSOCIATION. 



Preildent, ■. 0. Dangan, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 aeeretary-treaaarer, C. B. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



Thk Jii.'iil-ordor socd season is bi'injr pro- 

 longed hv winter's lingering. 



W. W. HaknauI) returned to Chieago 

 greatly ini})roved in health as the result of 

 his sojourn in southern tJalifornia. 



Wholesale dealers in vegetable seeds 

 report that fill-in orders are coming in 

 good volume from the retailers who buy 

 bulk seeds. 



The chief reason market gardeners give 

 for reduced seed purchases is that help is 

 scarce; many will plant only so much as 

 the family can cultivate. 



The onion-set market is cleaning up 

 in good shape this year, but the price 

 jseems to have cut demand to a point where 

 the short supply will be enough. 



It does not speak well for the future 

 of the trade that the price of vegetable 

 seeds is steadily falling while the prices 

 of all other commodities steadily ad- 

 vance. Production surely will be reduced 

 until the other extreme results. 



E. C. DuNGAN, president of the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association, is back at 

 his desk for a few hours daily after an 

 absence of four months, caused by severe 

 illness. He expresses his thanks to the 

 trade for the many letters of sympathy 

 he received during that time. 



The fire that destroyed the warehouse 

 of the Livingston Seed Co., 59 East Chest- 

 nut street, Columbus, O., burned for six 

 hours before it was controlled, the entire 

 fire department of Columbus being called 

 upon to fight it. It was confined to the 

 rear of the building and the upper floors, 

 the offices escaping total destruction. The 

 loss amounted to about $100,000, largely 

 covered by insurance. No one was 

 seriously injured. 



TRADE TROUBLES IN HOLLAND. 



An insight into the situation among 

 the bulb growers of Holland is afforded 

 in the following communication from 

 one of them to a British horticultural 

 journal: 



"Most of the bulb growers are op- 

 posed to the measures taken by the 

 Dutch Bulb Exporters' Association con- 

 cerning minimum prices. 



"To force the system upon every 

 bulb exporter, the D. B. E. A. boycotts 

 every bulb grower who does not sigTi 

 and submit to a contract in which the 

 grower undertakes not to sell bulbs to, 

 or buy bulbs from, persons not members 

 of the D. B, E. A., on a fine of 500 

 florins for each transgression. The mem- 

 bers of the D. B. E. A., on still higher 

 fines, are forced to trade only with 

 their fellow members in Holland or such 

 bulb growers as have signed the con- 

 tract. 



"Up till now the only result has been 

 that the D. B. E. A. has boycotted it- 

 self, for almost all bulb growers refuse 

 to afford the means by which the D. B. 

 E. A. can govern the trade and force 

 apon their customers prices which may 

 be profitable to themselves, but most 

 probably will reduce the sale of bulbs 

 in general, so that part of the salable 



Tested 

 Proven Seeds 



Early View of Ovr Trial Grotind* 



Did you ever sow Peacock's Flower 

 Seeds? If not — why not? Other 

 florists do. 



Please see full list of Florists' and Market 

 Gardeners' Seeds in the 16-page Green Sec- 

 tion, pages 117 to 132 of The Review for 

 January 29. 



Everette R. Peacock Co. 



I SEED GROWERS AND IMPORTERSI 



4011-15 Milwaukee Avenae, 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



